Poems (Clark)/Grandmother's Lover
GRANDMOTHER'S LOVER
He brought me a nosegay so funny,
Funny as funny can be,—
Clover and catnip and yarrow,
And a bit of a mulberry-tree;
And he said I looked like my grandma
When she was a slip of a girl;
And would I give him a keepsake,
A wee little, dear little curl?
And he bowed with a stately obeisance to me,
My grandma's old lover from over the sea.
Funny as funny can be,—
Clover and catnip and yarrow,
And a bit of a mulberry-tree;
And he said I looked like my grandma
When she was a slip of a girl;
And would I give him a keepsake,
A wee little, dear little curl?
And he bowed with a stately obeisance to me,
My grandma's old lover from over the sea.